Re: AFL Rd 4 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Fremantle
Reply #31 –
I'm not sure that you could rely on phone camera footage from the length of the ground. The Freo players were claiming that the ball touched Aish's head, Fyfe claimed that he had touched the ball off George's boot and the TV commentators thought that the ball could have brushed Aish's hair. Either way, umpires often miss touched balls that are more obvious than that one and it goes some way towards making up for some of the dodgy frees Freo got.
Agreed, stuff like that is missed all the time, players can barely hear each other shouting let along for an umpire to detect a snick of the footy in real-time play, it happens all the time. btw., The Freo protest is valid, in the 4K x 100Hz slow motion it shows the ball flick Aish's bicep which ripples from the contact, and it also possibly flicks his hair but that could well be the breeze as the pill flys past.
Are we really going to expect umpires to detect that sort of incidental contact?
Regardless, to then stupidly abuse the umpire you get what you deserve.